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Background
- Due to trauma to temporoparietal area w/ associated skull fx and meningeal artery damage
- Classic presentation of LOC > lucid interval > LOC only occurs in 20%
- Injury to brain is often absent so good recovery if hematoma evacuated in time
Diagnosis
Differential Diagnosis
Intracranial Hemorrhage Types
- Intra-axial
- Hemorrhagic stroke (Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage)
- Traumatic intracerebral hemorrhage
- Extra-axial
- Epidural hemorrhage
- Subdural hemorrhage
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage (aneurysmal intracranial hemorrhage)